I'm struggling with the Usability of TikiWiki
Hi,
I hope this is constructive criticism, but I've just installed TikiWiki and find the Usability just awful. (I'm using 1.9)
I created a 'Blog' and when my users click on Blog | My Blog and are presented with all the messages, they can't see any way of adding a new post.
And there's confusion between creating a 'comment' (which is actually easier) and creating a 'post'. I eventually found a tiny little icon and after holding my mouse over all these icons, I eventually worked out which one to press.
Ultimately I'd like to put a big link that says 'New Post' and that should be the most important and obvious thing to do. Can I customise this and is there any concise, sectionalised documentation for this (though I'm using 1.9). And then I couldn't figure out how to delete the 'Comment'... I still can't. If I click on 'View comments' it takes me to a page which basically says ' Post new comment'... what the? Is that Post a new 'Post' or post a new 'Comment'... or 'Comment' a new 'Post'... This is so confusing I'm going to have to find a different way to create a blog. The icon (The pen on paper) is used for 'Creating' a post at the top of the page and then for 'Editing' a post within the blog post. Is there a way to change this terrible usability?
The other things are for example, the 'FAQ'. I created a FAQ and I can see no way to edit it after I found I made a mistake in a question. There's only a delete (and I'm 'admin'). Why would no one expect that I might not make a mistake when I'm creating a new FAQ? Bizarre.
I've enabled 'Workflow' and wanted to have a look at it. But there's no way to add one or do anything. And there's no pointer to any documentation on how to do it.
When I click on 'Articles' it brings up a blank page. What am I supposed to do here (no, it's not the 8MB limit, I've set that to 32MB already). Do I have to edit some other file to create 'Articles'?
I noticed the calendar. But I can't work out what to do. I need users to be able to easily work out how it works. I created a calendar entry and it makes the date an orange colour but when I click on it, the page refreshes and doesn't seem to do anything. I sat there for 5 minutes and I have no idea what on earth the calendar does, if anything.
I realise some of things need documentation perusal, but the usability should enable to make a start. I don't want users of this to have to read pages of documentation. I just wanted a simple, reasonably obvious what-to-do Wiki. Have I downloaded the right one?
I'm using Firefox is this a problem as well?